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Home for the past year has been a blue Tarpaulin in a makeshift camp on wasteland known as the Jungle. Every lunchtime Ehsan eats a sandwich distributed by a local charity and every evening he tries to cling on to a lorry heading for Britain. He has never made it past the port.

“My luck is out,” said the 18-year-old Afghan from Kunduz, who fled his homeland after joining — and then leaving — the Taleban.